On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> RE: Page actions moving into the header: (This is me collecting my > comments from a meeting to this list) > > As I mentioned in yesterday’s design review, my gut instinct is > that moving article actions into the header is the wrong path: > > * I don’t think they’re needed up there. People > already scroll to the top when they need these functions. > * I think it conflates those actions with the > “personal bar” actions and creates confusion. A primary motivation for > Winter is to segregate the following types of actions: Site actions > (sidebar chrome), Content actions (page stuff), and Personal actions (user > stuff). The search box is a site affordance. The personal actions are > obviously thus. Mixing article actions next to the personal actions seems > weird to me. > * The point of discussion being always available > is a valid one - the use case being, “I’m in this section, and I see an > error, and I want to talk about it”. However, I don’t necessarily think > that dumping the user into the “master” talk page at any point is going to > solve that. A long time ago I had the idea to add a “discuss” link next to > the section edit links. This would target the specific section and create > a new discussion with that title (or find an existing one) and work within > that. This is obviously something that can easily be done with Flow > (though my original thoughts were with LQT). I’m not sure it works well > with Talk. This is something I’ll want to experiment with. > I agree with those conclusions, and was getting worried about the number of icons in the current Winter headerbar, once scrolled. 7 ± 2<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_plus_or_minus_two>works. One possibility would be replacing the current "article actions" icons in the headerbar, with a "scroll to top" button. It's a commonly requested feature, and (iirc) is generally turned down because of the sheer quantity of links that would be added, if they were attached to every section.
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